Research · Systematic review
Non-surgical treatment (other than steroid injection) for carpal tunnel syndrome
What it found
Across the two pooled B6 trials, vitamin B6 did not significantly improve overall carpal tunnel symptoms; splinting and some other measures fared better.
- Design
- Systematic review
- Year
- 2003
- Sample size
- 50
- Population
- adults with carpal tunnel syndrome (B6 subset: two trials, 50 people)
- Intervention
- oral vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) vs placebo, among other non-surgical treatments
- Outcome
- overall symptom improvement
- Journal
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Citation last checked 2026-06-21.